Programme

Arrival

Welcome speech by WEC-Austria, OSCE and IV

Keynote 1

Jyuung-Shiauu Chern, PhD., (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC))

Keynote 2

TBA (Federal Foreign Office)

Panel I: Digitalization and Society

• Andrei Covatariu (Energy Policy Group - EPG)
• Herwig Klima (Verbund AG)
• Jochen Penker (Federal Ministry of Economy, Family and Youth, and Int. Energy Policy, Austria)
• Karin Widegen (International Smart Grid Action Network)
• Pasquale Del Vecchio (Centro Cultura Innovativa d`Impresa)

Moderation: Christoph Menzel

Topics:

• Digitalization and its impact on energy and society
• The role of Internet of things
• Chances and risks for society

Break

Keynote 3

Hossein Hassani (Webster University)

Keynote 4

Jan Bartos (World Energy Scenarios, World Energy Council)

Lunch

Panel II: Energy transition in times of big data

• Adam Brown (Global Energy Game)
• Hossein Hassani (Webster University)
• Brendan Devlin (EU Commission)
• Maja Pantic (Imperial College London)
• Nuno Silva (EFACEC)

Moderation: Stefan Ulreich

Topics:

• Impact of digitalization on climate policies
• Carbon neutrality vs. economic interests
• Digitalization in the age of energy transition

Break

Keynote 5

TBA, (TBA, Argonne National Laboratory)

Keynote 6

TBA, (Brendan Devlin, EU Parliament)

Panel III: Big data, energy and security

• Einari Kisel (Tallinn University of Technology)
• Mirjana Radovanovic (EDUCONS University, Faculty of Applied Security)
• Leonidas Anthopoulos (SignalGeneriX Ltd, Limassol, Cyprus)
• Liliana Proskuryakova (National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Russia)
• TBA (BP)
• TBA (Israel)

Moderation: Daniel Kroos (OSCE)

Topics:

• Digitalization and its role in security of energy supply
• The role of Blockchain and smart contracts for energy security
• What to expect from future developments?

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